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Sunday Services
11:00 a.m.
 
 
We welcome all without regard to race, ethnicity, gender, disability, affectional or sexual orientation, age, language, citizenship status, economic status, or national origin and without requiring adherence to any particular interpretation of religion or to any particular religious belief or creed.

Mission Statement

Our mission is to come together to affirm our shared values and celebrate our diverse beliefs.  We covenant to nurture and challenge the questioning spirit in each other.  We advocate for, and participate in, the rehabilitation and protection of our environment.  We oppose any intent or action that diminishes the human spirit, and we work for justice and equality for all people.
Welcome to the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Smithton, providing a liberal religious home and voice for justice in Southwestern Pennsylvania for 150 years.  We invite you to explore our site and contact us. If you're not currently a member of our congregation, we'd like to take this opportunity to invite you to one of our Sunday services, held at 11:00 a.m. and followed by coffee, light refreshments, and friendly conversation.

UUCS is an energetic congregation with a vision: to provide a place of community, to open opportunitites for individual pursuit of spiritual identity, and to promote progressive change in our region and the world based on our principles of equality and social justice for all.  We hope you will feel at home in a caring and safe environment.  Come by--we would love to meet you.


                                                                                Rev. Dr. Thomas J. Bodie, Minister
 
 
Unitarian Universalism is a caring, open-minded religion
 
that encourages you to seek your own spiritual path. 
 
Our faith draws on many religious sources, welcoming
 
people with different beliefs.  We are united by shared
 
values, not by creed or dogma.  Our congregations are
 
places where people gather to nurture their spirits and
 
put their faith into action by helping to make our communities -
 
and the world - a better place.

What's Happening

  • Sunday, May 27, 2012: "Memorial Day" This weekend is an important occasion to memorialize loved ones who have been lost, in war or in other ways.  This will be a lay-led service from within the ...
    Posted May 27, 2012 4:38 AM by Smithton Minister
  • Sunday, May 20, 2012: "Flower Communion" Originating in Eastern Europe in the 1920s, this lovely service has become, perhaps, the best loved UU service of togetherness. Please don’t forget to bring some flowers to share ...
    Posted May 14, 2012 7:02 AM by Smithton Minister
  • Sunday, May 13, 2012: "A Mother's Day Message of Peace" Julia Ward Howe wrote her Mother's Day Proclamation in 1870 and, today, congregation member Phil Verostko leads a service in a discussion of Howe's work for peace and ...
    Posted May 10, 2012 7:19 PM by Smithton Minister
  • Sunday, May 6, 2012: "Something Different, Something More"  What is it that a UU is searching for when engaged in “a free and responsible search for truth and meaning.  People come through our doors looking for help with ...
    Posted Apr 29, 2012 6:55 AM by Smithton Minister
  • Sunday, April 29, 2012: "Creating a New Jurisdiction" What is our jurisdiction? As we are a religious congregation, I think of jurisdiction in terms of our sphere of relevance and service in our community and in our world ...
    Posted Apr 22, 2012 4:53 PM by Smithton Minister
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